Art -
Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
Mind -
The human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.
This is the third part of the series of questions I asked the European Streetteam Participants on the Secret Easter Bunny swap.
The question this time was: what is your most sinful pleasure?
shopping / buying too much clothing / expensive handbags / buying online
eating candy/ sweets / cookies and cream ice cream
Followed by:
sleep until noon / just reading deco magazines, newspapers, a book, a movie and nothing else on Sundays/ lazy days / eating a big bag of crisps while surfing the net and not doing anything useful all day
rich and wonderful food good alcohol red wine Eating more than I need Coca Cola drinking bubbles during daytime ;-) champagne Drinking a cold beer in the summer by the beach.
Some people questioned the question:
Why pleasure is sinful?
I never feel guilty or sinful about anything that gives me pleasure!
Some people have funny sinful pleasures - at least, they made me smile:
chick magazines
Sauna
I love raw meat - Boef á la Tartar
creeping into abandoned houses and photographing them
I have been tagged by CabbagesandKingsArt to post 7 random facts about me. I have done that before but I found it was time for some new facts even though I think I'm pretty dull! So here we go:
I was an au pair in Virginia at the age of 19 and took care of 3 lovely kids. We had so much fun together. It's a bit scary to know that they are now 22, 24 and 26. I'm getting old.
I eat my French fries with mayonaise, that's because I'm Belgian.
Ever since I have traveled to Spain, I wished I could dance Flamenco. I love the music, the passion and the vibes of Flamenco.
I’m really good at parallel parking. It’s not unusual for me to pass up a big parking spot for a smaller more challenging one.
I love wearing three-quarter length sleeve T-shirts.
I really enjoy quiet.
I'm a perfectionist learning to be less perfectionist. It's a difficult process.
If you like to share your random facts or habits, feel free to consider yourself tagged! Let me know in my comments and I'll hop over to your blog to read them.
When I bought the house we live in, the people who sold it did not want to have anything that was still in the house. For a starter, that was some pretty good news for me as I didn't have to buy lots of things that involve 'dressing' a house. Even though it was not always what I would have chosen myself, I was happy that I didn't have to buy it all at once. But the consequence of buying the house with everything in it was that there was still a lot of stuff I did not need or want so that went to the thriftstore. Some of it looked interesting and I put it in a box on the attic. The other day, I was clearing some room on one of my cupboard shelves to put more feelings to dry. Lots of things needed to go to the attic. There I found the box I put all the interesting stuff in when I moved in. Look what I found:I'll be using this set to number my feelings! I have been wanting to buy one of those for ages so now I only need the alphabet! YaY! :)
Since I'm producing mini-feelings at the moment, I was wondering what your favorite mini-feeling is, that is if you have a favorite one of course. So please, do me a favor and drop the name of the feeling you like most in the comments. Don't cheat, you can only pick one! :) Click on one of the pictures below, that will bring you to the set '99 feelings' on Flickr so you can choose your favorite one! That way I have some sort of clue what people like & it will help me to decide which ones to make first. :) Next week around this time, I'll let the randomizer pick a comment and that person will receive a happy package from me! :)
Did you know that I have something with numbers? I took a screenshot of the 999 views on my 99 feelings-set on Flickr! :)
When I started crocheting, I also signed up at Ravelry. This is a crochet and knitting community and it's a great source of inspiration. Up until now, I only browsed around for some patterns, didn't even get involved much and I'm already lost and addicted. Nowadays it seems that the crochet hook has become one of my vital bodyparts. Anyway, I found this lovely lariat pattern by creativeyarn. It seemed like a project I could handle as the stitches weren't difficult. Actually, by now I have learned all the basic abbreviations and when I don't know one, I contact my crochet teacher Tara from Mamachee & she's always willing to tell me how to do it! :)
This is the second part of the series of questions I asked the European Streetteam Participants on the Secret Easter Bunny swap.
Have you ever thought about what you still really want to do before you die? One person had a very clever answer to that as she said:
'I don't postpone... so there are not so many things that wait for being done' Perhaps we need to follow these very wise words...
Most of them seemed to have dreams to travel...
visit all over Europe
Go to Egypt
go to Australia, New Zealand and Japan
travel everywhere
going to the beautiful place 'Tavira' in Portugal
make a long trip with hubby and kids to farfar away..
travel around the world without airplanes
live in different places in the world
visit at least one country in each of the five continents
Long trip to India
travel a lot continue travelling the world, re visiting countries i've been to that i loved, a road trip through the US .. travel travel travel travel travel ..
make a world travel
travel to USA
go to Bali, Greece, Italy
travel around the world, and live in another country where there is sunshine all year round...
cross-America tour
ski and visit Indonesia
travel around the world
Some of them dream about making, having, raising a baby/children...
have a baby
To raise a child
see my kids grow up happily
lovingly raise my children
Some of them want to write/draw/publish a book...
be a book illustrator
write that book
Some of them dream about a house by the sea...
live at the seaside :)
buy a house by the sea
And here are some other answers...
I’d like to learn more as much as I can and share it. I believe that Having, living with and spreading out useful knowledge is a way to lead me towards being a real human.
I never tought to this...sorry...
develop my mind/heart to become more compassionate and wise
Live a happy life. If there is something I didn’t do before that then it wasn’t meant to be.
Find a inner balance in myself
Everything that I possibly can and then some more LOL! I want to be healthy and then just die from extreme old age!!!
find time for myself,bring my etsy shop to really begin working!
watch the aurora borealis in the sky above me
make peace with myself
make a living from art
to be able to tell and show everyone I know that I love them and will do so even after I die.
oh my, there are so many things I will do!
to be immortal...hehe!!!
I think it's good to think about what you want to do before you die once in a while...
Life is often lived so fast and before you know it, you're growing grey hair, get wrinkles and suddenly you also start to schrink! Climb that mountain before that happens! ;)
I love raw meat - Boef á la Tartar
